We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative Yi-Sin Huang ("YH").
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Yi-Sin Huang Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by Yi-Sin Huang.
Designer Interview of Yi-Sin Huang:
DI: Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
YH : In order to solve more issues which appear in the current productions, I like to observe and modify it. It is always feel good to break all of issues we have found in current productions and to make it better.
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
YH : Create more goods to make our life more convenient.
DI: What is "design" for you?
YH : Make our life better.
DI: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
YH : Create the things to solve the problems and to present a new function and a new value upon people's life.
DI: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
YH : Any designs can make our life better are my favorites.
DI: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
YH : Metal, carbon, and wooden are my favorite materials.
DI: When do you feel the most creative?
YH : When attend into the exhibition.
DI: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
YH : Safety and useful are two aspects I focus more during my designing.
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
YH : Mostly, I keep careful emotion when I design.
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
YH : When my designs are realized, I always feel released and joy.
DI: What makes a design successful?
YH : Present a life and a meaning into a project.
DI: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
YH : Every time after judging, I do review my project as a whole again no matter is good or bed.
DI: From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
YH : Make the project to live with our environment is the responsibility of a designer.
DI: How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
YH : The design field is evolving with the new needs. And every one can be the designer because we all know very well what we expect.
DI: When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
YH : 2014 IF IBDC Professionals online exhibitions all over the world. I would like to make most of designs I have now to be real and then to hold the exhibitions in locally Italy.
DI: Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
YH : Daily experiences.
DI: How would you describe your design style? What made you explore more this style and what are the main characteristics of your style? What's your approach to design?
YH : Rational and simplify.
DI: Where do you live? Do you feel the cultural heritage of your country affects your designs? What are the pros and cons during designing as a result of living in your country?
YH : Morality and virtue of Taiwan cultural are affects to my designs.
DI: How do you work with companies?
YH : Trust and mutual assistance are main keys to achieve our goal when I work with companies.
DI: What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
YH : Respect each other's point of view and design professional knowledge.
DI: Can you talk a little about your design process?
YH : Observe, Analysis, Think, Make, Review, and Remake.
DI: What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
YH : Water tap, Book shelve, Furniture, Chair, and Telephone.
DI: Can you describe a day in your life?
YH : Thinking, Observing, and Making.
DI: Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
YH : Making various, thinking different, reviewing, and exercise.
DI: From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
YH : Humble and progressive are positives thinking of being a designer. And self-centered and ignore the real needs are negatives behave of being a designer.
DI: What is your "golden rule" in design?
YH : Take it easy.
DI: What skills are most important for a designer?
YH : Careful and serious mind are most important skills for a designer.
DI: Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
YH : Machinery design books are very useful tools for my design work.
DI: Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
YH : Schedule my daily tasks.
DI: How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
YH : 3 to 6 month.
DI: What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
YH : What is your design inspiration of your designing?
DI: What was your most important job experience?
YH : Make samples and test samples.
DI: Who are some of your clients?
YH : Everyone can be my clients.
DI: What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
YH : I enjoy doing any type of design works because it helps my thoughts to be realized.
DI: What are your future plans? What is next for you?
YH : Plan to check out all of good designs all over the world.
DI: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
YH : I develop my own designs.
DI: Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
YH : Yes, and will update it in Karl H Studio web when is ready.
DI: How can people contact you?
YH : Via E-mail or FB or other social net work.
DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
YH : Not specific.